5:47 PM,
Dec. 5, 2013

Julie Larsen Maher, wildlife photographer, with a fox at the Bronx Zoo.

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When the first snow of the year happens, most of us burrow down at home with a fire and a cup of hot cocoa. But Julie Larsen Maher, photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, runs to the Bronx Zoo.

"People think the zoo closes, but winter is one of the best times to come with your camera," says Maher. "The animals that like the cold love the winter."

As the photographer for the WCS, Maher shoots at all five wildlife parks in New York, but the job is heavy in conservation activism, so her assignments also take her farther from her Sleepy Hollow home than the New York Aquarium at Coney Island. ...